Roger Highfield
Museum exec, prof @Dunn_School & @UCLChemistry, ex Ed @newscientist & @Telegraph. Neutron bouncer. Books rogerhighfield.com/books
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Create the Trophy
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is a global prize that celebrates the successes of modern engineering. With QEPrize winners selected from across the world, such an international prize requires a truly international trophy. Every two...
COVID-19 England & Wales
Roger Highfield
Click on 'change in new' on this @MRC_Outbreak tool to see how the current #COVID19 control measures are not working imperialcollegelondon.github.io/covid19local/ (background on the winter wave: sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/coronavir…)
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Rice rolls out next-gen nanocars
Rice University researchers continue to advance the science of single-molecule machines with a new lineup of nanocars, in anticipation of the next international Nanocar Race in 2022.
Roger Highfield
Nanomechanics are getting ready to rev their engines for the second international Nanocar Race!
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Can lab-grown brains become conscious?
A handful of experiments are raising questions about whether clumps of cells and disembodied brains could be sentient, and how scientists would know if they were.
Roger Highfield
Can lab-grown brains become conscious? nature.com/articles/d4158… Without a cast-iron definition of consciousness, hard to say... (more on the rise of mini organs and #COVID19 here: sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/coronavir…)
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Covid: Antibodies 'fall rapidly after infection'
This is likely to mean immunity levels decline and raises the risk of reinfection, researchers say.
Robots help to answer age-old question of why fish school
Study using biomimetic fish-like robots shows that swimming closely together offers fish hydrodynamic benefits - research project with participation from University of Konstanz researchers provides first experimental validation of an answer to an...
Duke-NUS study uncovers why bats excel as viral reservoirs without getting sick
Study confirms bats adopt multiple strategies to reduce pro-inflammatory responses, thus mitigating potential immune-mediated tissue damage and disease. Findings provide important insights for medical research on human diseases.
Inhibitor of KRAS gene mutation shows promise in lung, bowel and other solid tumors
New results from a clinical trial of a drug that targets a cancer-causing mutation in the KRAS gene have shown that it can shrink tumours and is well-tolerated by patients. In two presentations to the 32nd EORTC-NCI-AACR cancer symposium,...
Roger Highfield
Scientists have been trying to develop new drugs that target the KRAS mutation for decades as the gene is one of the most common mutations in cancer. Now latest results from an early clinical trial of adagrasib show promise
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Why COVID outbreaks look set to worsen this winter
It’s too soon to say whether COVID is seasonal like the flu — but where clusters aren’t under control, infections will continue to swell.
Roger Highfield
Why #COVID19 outbreaks look set to worsen this winter nature.com/articles/d4158… (background: sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/coronavir…)
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Open/Ended #9: Dr. Jessica Wade - Open/Ended Design
/ Dr. Jessica Wade is a fantastic physicist with multiple scientific awards under the belt of her lab coat. By day she works on her post-doc on chiral organic light-emitting diodes at Imperial College London and by night she is a whizz on Wikipedia....
DNA in fringe-lipped bat poop reveals unexpected eating habits
By examining the poop of the fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus), a team at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) encountered surprising results about its eating habits and foraging abilities.
My teenage son had his Interrail pass blocked — costing him £500 to complete his journey
✉ My wife and I and a friend have spent the past three Christmases in Barbados. We stay at the Accra Beach hotel midway between the boardwalk and the Saint Lawrence Gap hotel. This area, which
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid Bennu - OSIRIS-REx Mission
Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, Oct. 22, images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more than enough material to meet one of its main mission requirements – acquiring at...
Bradford Science Festival on BCB Radio | National Science and Media Museum
Enjoy radio shows and interviews created specially for Bradford Science Festival.
Anti-spitting sign | Science Museum Group Collection
Enamel notice, Great Southern & Western Railway of Ireland, "Please do not spit in the carriages", pale blue and white, rectangular, 4 1/2 inches x 16 inches, 115 x 408 mm.
Opening of LMB Containment Level 3 lab fast-tracked to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Mammoth team effort enables use of live virus for rapid responsive COVID-19 research into SARS-CoV-2 infection and immunity that could help future vaccine development.
Brexit’s back: the five issues that will shape science
Europe’s political shake-up is approaching — for researchers, key factors such as immigration and funding hang in the balance.
Roger Highfield
Brexit’s back: the five issues that will shape UK science nature.com/articles/d4158… Europe’s political shake-up is approaching — for researchers, key factors such as immigration and funding hang in the balance
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Finally, a way to see molecules 'wobble'
Researchers at the University of Rochester and the Fresnel Institute in France have found a way to visualize those molecules in even greater detail, showing their position and orientation in 3D, and even how they wobble and oscillate. This could...